Did Tim Burton’s “9” Have A Video Game Tie-In?

At one time, a company may have been developing a video game version of Tim Burton’s post-apocalyptic film 9. A staffer at Seven Studios (Scratch: The Ultimate DJ and umm… Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow) lists Nine the Gamein his Linkedin resume.

The animator may have meant the other 2009 film Nine, but transitioning a movie with a film director going through a mid-life crisis seems rather unlikely.

Update: Looks like Seven Studios didn’t want this revealed. The animator updated his resume and removed Nine the Game, but Google’s cache remembers it was there. Plus we took a screenshot just in case.

Yeah, it was released in theaters a few months back. It just came and went.

“but transitioning a movie with a film director going through a mid-life crisis seems rather unlikely.”
I’d play it! Sort of a fantasy of mine is seeing something like American Beauty (or Kevin Spacey) in game form.
“Today, I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go #$&! himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.”

http://terracannon876.livejournal.com Laura

That would be a new sort of life sim game =P I’d buy it just for its uniqueness XD

MisterNiwa

Wow, i guess it didnt run in German Theaters then.

Abdul_Rahman

Nothing worse than video games based on a movie, except a video game based on a bad movie. Thank God they probably knew how bad the movie is, and imagined how bad the game can be.

http://twitter.com/cocainexplosion Doctor_Rabbit

Yeah, I didn’t like it either. But, while I was watching it, I imagined what might happen if they decided to make it a game instead of a movie. I think it would have been an interesting game, if they polished the story a bit, and added personality to the characters.

Aoshi00

I thought the animation was amazing and I liked the story and setting as well. I guess there’s a lot of potential that hasn’t been tapped into, the end was kind of like lifestream in FF7. I can imagine how all those mechanical beasts (cat, bird, creepy seamstress, giant spider, etc) could turn into cool bosses. A game based on “9″ might actually be kind of cool, w/ platforming and fighting giant bosses. Then again, I like almost all CG films, but I thought this one was rather unique, even though not perfect.

http://twitter.com/matty_125 matty

Better, yet, have them based on Little Big Planet’s Sackboys

conchobhar

I think you mean Shane Acker’s “9″.

Aoshi00

I guess it’s kind of like Neill Blomkamp and Peter Jackson for District 9 right? I think Tim Burton being the producer might have influenced the film quite much even though Shane Acker was the director, at least stylistically.

conchobhar

Burton may have been an influence, but it would have to be long before; 9 is basically an expanded version of Acker’s own short film (also titled 9). Burton was so impressed with the short film that he produced a feature film.

Aoshi00

I was watching the behind the scene stuffs on the DVD, I think Acker actually didn’t get the say to everything in the feature film, since it’s not a one man show anymore, like the short when he did as a student in UCLA. So I suppose he had to work w/ writers and probably Burton’s input and makes some compromises in this movie, even though the original idea came from him.

http://photovoltaik.bandcamp.com/ Ujn Hunter

Isn’t it Timur something something from the Nightwatch/Daywatch movies???

Kris

Timur Bekmambetov co-produced it, I think.
I was disappointed because the fight scenes weren’t nearly as interesting as Wanted’s.

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